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k l ritrnne classified ads page fourteen v s5 no 20 fhe tribune stouffville thursday december 2 1061 fourteen pages ht cand s qualify for local election santa claus arrives here this saturday hundreds visit new high school on official opening m iwi some of the dignitaries who day evening are pictured here h lemasurier reeve of participated in the official in an informal pose following markham twp mr lack opening of stouffvilles new the program they are from smith mp mr lex meken- district high school on fri- left to right dr s s ball a zie mpp henry ogden reeve of stouffville and iv an mclaughlin reeve of whitchurch twp lift lit mr r mercer is pictured ing ceremonies on friday above directing the stouff- night dr c a brown reg- vile district high school istrar of the department of girls choir during the open- education officially opened the school rev douglas da vis offered the dedicatory prayer mr don cliadwick chairman of the board acted as master of ceremonies rye en whitchurch twp election slate reeve and deputy acclaimed there will be an election in whitchurch township next monday dec oth with five in the field for the three council seats reeve ivan mclaughlin was given an acclamation and p s legge former council member was also acclaimed for deputyreeve replacing former deputyreeve fred timbers who did not stand for reelection the five candidates in the field for council are deios gra ham and geo richardson who are seeking reelection and 3 new ofliceseekers win e card cliff walhvork and frank williams in addressing the compara tively small crowd which turn ed out for the annual nomina tion meeting on friday after noon reeve ivan mclaughlin who was a county commission er this past year dealt chiefly with county matters he stated that the metro area had taken si i3s2vo0 in assessment from the county leaving only ss- 000000 bill so the reeve con tended gave the remaining cou nty a raw deal while the cost of county road is shared on a percentage liais with met ro and the province they are the most heavily travelled sub urban roads in the province and the burden of upkeep left with the remaining county is considerable the county building erected in toronto a few years ago wis r ild for approximately its o i cost 123000- the vi- i forest was turned over to a county the budget for xt intalning the county park year was s10000 but it was he said that about 5 mount would be com- to the county when t i o county as- htchurcb i p year am ounted to a little over 0000 mid the reeve a figure tripled from the previous year p s legg who stepped from council to the deputyreeveship dealt in his remarks chiefly with road matters he said that the township budget had been cut from 93000 to ss5- coo by the highways dept and work had had to be cut to the core to keep within this amount a new maintainor purchased this year on the understanding that it could be financed over a period of two years now had to be paid for in one year ac cording to department instruc tions storm damage in whitchu rch mr legge stated ran to about 10000 of which it was expected the dept would pay 0 he cited various work projects which the council had completed this year including resurfacing of the musselnians lake road s2s0o for cutting hills and reditchiig 11382 fori dust layer 1323 for gravel and 1600 for weed spray councillor deios graham who is seeking reelection told the ratepayers that 500 yards more gravel had been placed on the roads this year than in 10531 and at 200 less cst the roads he stated were above average he made a strong plea for ev- eryone to get out and vote councillor geo richardson also seeking reelection said that he believed whitchurch twp was in an area of coming development he hoped to see subdivision development come slowly and not become a bur den on the township mr rich ardson cited the figure of s20s- 000 in public school debentures this year for four sections for new schools and additions w e card a new candidate asked the ratepayers for sup port at the polls and stated that he would endeavor to sec that township services were provid- d iac and cot just a few markham village acclaims first deputyreeve mrs alma walker markham village councillor for the past two years has been acclaimed as the towns first deputy- reeve mr edward reeve and mr orville hisey were nomin ated but- did not qualify the entire council was re turned by acclamation includ ing reeve j v fry and coun cillors jack carson nick jschouten tom wignall and a v rogers the latter is a new comer to municipal politics cliff walhvork who ls also a candidate for council said that he would do everything in his power to try and combine with other municipalities in trying to obtain an easing of the high school costs frank williams a candidate also touched on school casts stating that he believed fed eral aid would have to be forth coming if the burden were to be eased zephyr farmer tops in 500 bushe potato competition the annual ontario county 500 bushel potato club ban- ouet was held in zephyr com munity hall on tuesday nov 23rd a large gathering of po tato growers and their friends were present mr r e goodin potato fieldman for the province of ontario spoke briefly on the potato situation howard har per who introduced the guest speaker discussed the work of the ontario potato growers association and urged the cou nty growers to get behind this association mr heber irwin director of the provincial potato growers outlined the organization of this association a group of growers in the shelburne dist rict were originally responsible fo getting this association un der way and when they pre sented their brief to the onta rio soil and crop improvement qssocialibn it was so well re ceived that this association has now been given its wholeheart ed support george dowswell chairman of the ontario county potato committee was in the chair the morrison family zephyr provided special entertainment in the absence of mr fair agricultural representative john gill assistant announc ed the prize winners and called on the various donors to pre sent their prizes the results of the 500 bushel potato club for 1051 are as follows first fourteen name bus per acre santa claus parade this saturday santa is scheduled to arrive in stouffville this sat after noon his big parade will move off from the legion hall at 2 oclock led by the queens own band from toronto 15 musi cians in full regalia more floats than ever before have been entered in the parade particu larly in the school class there will be lots of clowns and the hundreds of children who will be here that day will each re ceive a bag of candy from the hands of old st nick floats are asked to assemble at the hall by 130 in the after noon the parade will move through town to the eastend and back to the municipal bldg where santa claus will disperse his load of good things the chamber of commerce which is the body of the mer chants of stouffville go to con siderable expense to provide this fine attraction for town and they are asking for the help of every citizen who can to make some contribution to help defray the heavy expense the annual- santa claus parade has become a great town boost er known throughout the dis trict help keep it going by con tributing to the fund in addition to the contribu tors listed in these columns last week there arc- added the grand grill stouffville bakery snowballs barber shop dr h b freel stouffville machine tool percy tarr don lewis feasby transport stouffville creamery stanley theatre b p club mr pugh fred byer rev norman rowan keyson motors b a button reg button jacob brownsberger 103 years old mr jacob brownsberger a icsident of deloraine manito ba celebrated his 103rd birth day on wednesday nov i7th despite his many years mr brownsberger is in very good health he does his own house work and gardening and when his cellar became flooded with water a couple of years ago he baled all the water out by him self the celebrated resident was born at ringwood and oper ated as a harnessmaker stouffville at an early age he has been living in the west for the past fortyeight years his birthday was celebrated quietly at home receiving guests and members of his fa mily reeve ogden opposed by councillor daniels heifer attacks hired man twentysix year old peter derek a hired man on the ross winterstein farm 6th conces sion of whitchurch narrowly escaped death on tuesday af ternoon when a holstein heifer went wild and pinned the young man against the stable wall dr fj button of stouffville treated the injured youth for shock and a possible fractured skull the accident occurred imme diately after the horns had been removed from the heifers head derek was removing the ropes from the animal when it suddenly charged knocking him unconscious the youth is a native of holland and has been working on the winter stein farm for nearly two years he was removed to hospital for xray treatment and obser vation dreary christmas for milliken famliy as father stricken a dreary christmas appears imminent for mr and mrs al fred smith and family of birch- mount road near milliken about one year ago mr smith a veteran of world war ii contracted polio and was to tally paralyzed although he made a remarkable recovery from this disease his right arm remains useless since that time he has had pneumonia twice and now he has been stricken with leukemia a drea ded blood disease the family must now de pend on a war veterans allow ance and a monthly family al lowance for a meagre existence mr and mrs smith have 3 children patsy 14 david 12 and stephen 5 the two boys attend public school at the cor ner of birehmount road and finch ave while the daughter attends a school for the deaf at belleville when mr smith purchased his five acres of land he plan ned to build a house on the property he has since been forced to sell two acres along with the family car and tv set they are presently living in a tworoom home that was in tended for a garage last year the young peoples society of the agincourt un ited hurch the agincourt li ons club and the oes provid ed the family witli a christmas tree and many gifts neighlwrs also helped out financially mrs smiths parents reside in england she has no relatives in canada million gallons water per day in markham twp reeve alf lemasurier of markham township announced on tuesday night at a meet ing of the markham twp pro perty owners association that a big water strike had been made on the harold boyington property west of don mills road and south of no 7 high way the well is expected to produce one million gallons of water per day a sufficient quantity to supply 10000 per sons the quality of the water is reported to be very good mrs kathleen james and mr archie little members of the water and sanitation committee for the township have been working on the project for many months the tests have been carried out by internation al water supply headed by mr gordon kirk a total of eight candidates are in the field for the forth coming stouffville municipal election on dec 13th reeve henry ogden will be opposed this year by councillor elmer daniels councillors glenn rat- cliff and milt burk are seeking reelection and four new aspir ants to office are also on the slate ken laushway win tim bers len buckland and elgin wagg at the annual nomination meeting on friday evening a e weldon was given an accla mation for his return to the public utilities commission and there was an acclamation for public school trustees mrs mary smith len wilkes and wm malloy being returned l e oneill was also acclaimed for cemetery commissioner reeve ogden in addressing the ratepayers told of the stea dy growth of the community lie spoke of the trouble exper ienced in having the roads pro perly oiled and the resurfacing of obrien ave mr ogden said that the new county setup was much more expensive in its in itial year but hoped that the municipal board would give some relief due to the undue burden caused by the sever ance of the metro area walter brillinger speaking from the floor asked the reeve why the local planing mill could not ob tain a deed for several acres of property purchased just south of the new high school mr og den explained that the deed was ready for the new owner just as soon as the subdivision plan was provided as had been agreed to councillor milt burk spoke chiefly of road matters stating that the budget had been over spent by 2600 but that the dept had cut the budget from 9000 to 8000 he condemned the highways dept for unnec essary sanding on main st mr burk said that winter snow removal last year was small costing only s17s00 a total of had been spent on grading and 2000 for oil s1s30 was spent on sidewalks and 102637 on culverts he said that as regards to police he fa vored the opp but on a bet ter financial contract one man mr burk said was definitely not enough sewers he added were also needed and he would favor their installation as soon as council felt that the town was in a financial position to proceed councillor daniels said that he favored the opp but was urging a better financial ar rangement v be sought councillor ratcliff thanked those who had proposed his name for reelection newly proposed candidates win timbers ken laushway elgin wagg and len buckland all expressed appreciation at being proposed for council a e weldon returned to the utilities commission said that this was the i7th year he had been before the local rate payers he said the commis sion endeavored to plan a year ahead but had to move slowly being sure the changes they made were the best ones he said that a third circuit would be put into operation for local hjdro users next year and for this added work debentures would have to be issued len wilkes returned to the public school board said that the trustees found it hard to keep salaries down because of the expensivelyoperated muni cipalities to the south with their tempting offers of much higher pay mrs smith also returned to the school board dealt with the newly established kinder garten andmrmalloy the 3rd member returned said that the board hoped for council help in providing adequate policing of the school crossing before a fatality occurred markham tp ratepayers go to the polls monday the pretelephone era p s legge who is a vet eran in municipal affairs in newmarket and whitchurch township received an aceia- friday for he mttion on deputyreeveship of whit church replacing fred tim ber- w retired from office after ct and deputyreeve s as councillor john meyers zephyr 726 gordon harrison lxbridge 537 harry harper goodwood 47 moriey bagshaw lxbridge 18 denzil oldham mt albert 181 gordon rynard zephyr 453 oscar siiversides zephyr 452 ralph veiteh uvbridge 437 milton graves mt albert 433 tom smith ciarenont 427 cord risebrough lxbidze ill albert hockiey ciaremoru aon john moore lxbridge 403 ken hockley claremont 330 this is the first of a series of articles on the history of the local telephone company written by mr a d bruce pioneer resident and veteran telephone company member when the writer was a young man he was well acquainted with persons who had been born during the first decade of the nineteenth century when those individuals were born neither people nor news could travel faster than hore or wind could carry them meth ods of transportation and of communication were basically the same as those used in the prechristian era beginning with the applica tion of steam power to trans portation a long scries of in ventions and discoveries have been overcoming obstacles im posed by distance until today only hours are required to cross the ocean whereas in the ioid days as many weeks were sometimes required to cover the same ditance today the voice can carry to the other side of the world ir a moment i of the inventions and dis- covertes that have wrought these changes the telephone rakes first place in its direct impact upon the largest num ber of people and there arc many people still living whose recollections go back to the pre- telephone era the writer can remember his father reading the ncwspaper announcement of bells successful experiment in speaking from brantford to paris it is difficult for people who have known only modern con ditions to conceive of the hard ship- confusion and suffering that sometimes were experien ced in emergencies such as sick ness or accidents by people who lived on farms remote from doctors in the pre-tele- phone era in 1875 an uncle of the writer went to his bed in his visual health during the night he awakened suffering severe pain and informed his wife that he must have a doctor a messenger was sent to call dr hunter who lived on lot ifi on the 6th concession of wh it- church more than five miles distant it was t the time of continued oa back page exreeve chas hooper vet eran markham municipal fig ure will oppose reeve alf le masurier for the top executive position in markham town ship when the ratepayers go to the polls next monday coun cillor art lennie will contest the deputyreeveship held by w l clarke and there will be a run for council in ward i and ward hi in ward i mrs kathleen james who was this year markham townships first lady councillor is being oppos ed by vern griffin onetime reeve and r w masters in ward ii donald deacon won an acclamation for a council seat while in ward iii coun cillor archie littles seat is being contested by clifford king mondays annua nomination meeting held in the buttonville hall this year for the first time drew a comparatively good crowd reeve alf lemasurier in his report to the ratepayers stated that ho was well aware that taxes were increasing and this condition would continue as long as more and more services were demanded he comment ed that markham twp was leaping the results of a lack of planning and foresight he pointed out that much addi tional money had to be spent to complete the municipal buijd- ing started by a previous coun cil mr lemasurier dealt with the problem of obtaining in dustry and water for markham he promised continued sound and businesslike administra tion and as a parting comment said that he believed the onta rio government should abolish county councils deputyreeve w i clarke dealt principally with road matters having headed that de partment in council he said that with 85 of the assess ment taken away by the metro area the maintenance of coun ty roads by the remaining 15 was a big problem he said that markham had laid dust layer on one hundred miles of town ship road and given asphalt surface treatment to 00 miles mr clarke said that the gov ernment had pared markhams road budget from s154000 to 143000 he commented that be cause of this reduction part of the gravel program had to be curtailed councillor archie little said that he believed the new ward system adopted this year would prove quite satisfactory and commented briefly on his work with the water plumbing and fire committees councillor art lennie who is coming before the people for a fourth term this time as deputyreeve said that the do minion government was pour ing 572000 into markham township a year in baby bonus and old age pension and be lieved the provincial govern ment should come up with equal help for education councillor kathleen james told the gathering that there was no immediate prospect for water at this time she said that seven tests had been un successful mrs james also re viewed the assessment prob lem and the work of preparing for full measured assessment chas hooper former reeve who is opposing mr lemasu rier told the ratepayers that last years election proceedings were a disgrace mr hooper launched into numerous re- continucd on back page reeve returned ivan mclaughlin who was given another term on fri day as reeve of whitchurch towashlp sjr mclaughlin is servinfrrnts third term as reeve and zs also county commissioner during tht past yoa